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CAGED for the Minor Chords

   Well the CAGED works for the minor chords as well - We will show you the "A Minor Chord", this happens to be closely related to the C Major chord we used in the first lesson on CAGED. If you change the G's that are in the "C Major Chord" to A's - you will then have an "A Minor Chord".

   Oddly enough, ANY Key with a "C Major Chord" will also contain an "A Minor Chord" - Below, the G minor and C minor shown are not used very often. The A D and E minor chord shapes that we show are very common in most music.     

- Printable Version - All five "A Minors" as shown above, next to each other.
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    The "G Minor Shape" and "C Minor Shape" may be pretty hard to play - If these were moved down to make the chords "G Minor" and "C Minor", they would be easier to play.

   You would be totally confused if we showed you this applied to the diminished chords - Print out the "Key of C" worksheet off of the main lessons page and fill in the all of the (B's - D's - F's - This is a "B Diminished chord") - You should see that many of the chord shapes are about the same.

Part One - CAGED